Class D baseball: Schenectady Christian advances to final

ENDICOTT — Schenectady Christian scored its first five runs without benefit of a hit en route to a 11-1 victory over Livingston Manor this morning in a New York State Public High School Athletic Association state tournament Class D semifinal baseball game at Union-Endicott High School in suburban Binghamton.

The Falcons (18-8) will go after their first state championship at 4 p.m. today against the winner of the second semifinal Arkport Central (Section V) and Hamilton (Section III).

R.J. Gallup pitched the entire game for Schenectady Christian, scattering nine hits. He threw 100 pitches, 62 for strikes, striking out five and walking one.

Schenectady Christian, the Section II champion, scored three times in the first. After loading the bases with none out, the Falcons scored on a wild pitch and consecutive suicide-squeeze bunts by George Amedore and Steve Carter.

The Falcons added four in the second. A bases-loaded walk to Matt Gallup and bases-loaded hit by pitch to Amedore made it 5-0 until Carter’s two-run single gave Schenectady Christian its first hit of the game.

Troy Edwards, the starter for Section IX’s Livingston Manor (14-9), pitched five innings, but only one of the nine runs he allowed was earned.

Amedore finished 2-for-3 and drove in four runs. Carter had three RBI, and Matt Gallup scored three times.